adjectives - Adjectival order: “a style appropriate for” or “an appropriate style for”


I would like to understand the correct grammatical order in the sentence,



In your essay, you must use grammatically correct sentences with accurate spelling and punctuation in a style appropriate for the situation.



I hold the view that “style appropriate” is written bad because the grammatical order indicates that an adjective needs to be before the noun.


Is it grammatically correct?: NOUN + ADJECTIVE X


So,



In your essay, you must use grammatically correct sentences with accurate spelling and punctuation in an appropriate style for the situation .



It is true that it works like this ​ ADJECTIVE + NOUN ​


Resource: Cambridge English Objective First Book, Fourth Edition




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